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HORACE L. KIN GSLEY, OF RAOIN E, WISOON SIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOMITCHELL LEWIS & (30., OF SAME PLACE. I

WAGON-GEAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,920, dated March15, 1881.

Application filed December 27, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE L. KINGSLEY, of the city of Racine, in thecounty of Racine and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new andImproved Wagon-Gear, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a cheaper and more durableoscillating gear for platform spring-wagons,whereby greater elas- IOticity and freedom of movement is given to the wagon-bed. r

The invention consists of the combination, with the bed-piece, ofhorizontal rocking bars having their inner ends supported in a revolvingking-bolt plate, and their outer ends in a ring or segments that travelover the fitth-wheel,which is secured on the wagonplatform.

Figure 1 is a plan of the improved gear.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged verticalsectional elevation on line .90 w, Fig.1. a portion of the device, withpart of bed-piece broken away.

2 5 Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

In the accompanying drawings, Arepresents the platform, and B thefifth-Wheel, secured thereon by screws to or other suitable device. Onthe central bar, A, of the platform A a king-bolt plate, 0, is securedby screws or bolts 1), that pass down through 7 its lateral lugs 0 intothe said bar A, and on the top of the fixed plate 0 a revolvingking-bolt plate,

U, is held by the king-bolt D, that passes centrallydowu throughplatesOO and through the bar A, and is held by a nut, d. The plate 0 isprovided on its upper face with horizontally-perforated vertical lugs ff, one on either side of its center, and in these lugs ff are journaledthe inner ends of the two radial rocking bars E,whose outer ends arejournaled' so that said bars E can revolve in the vertical lugs 99 ofthe segments F F, that rest upon 5 and travel over the fifth-Wheel B. Ontheir Fig. 4 is an enlarged plan of (Model.)

inner edges these segments F F are provided with lugs h h, that areturned down in contact with the inner edge of the fifth-wheel B, andthereby said segments F F are held on said fifth-wheel B. In lieu of thesegments F F, a complete circle or ring may be used.

The bed-piece G is firmly secured on the rocking bars E E by suitableclamps l, as shown, so that said bed-piece G can rock from side to sidewith the rocking bars E E in the journal-bearings f g, and can alsofreely turn in a horizontal plane on the bearings afforded by theking-bolt plate 0 and the fifthwheel B.

The platform A is designed to rest upon and be secured to suitablesprings, and the wagon-box is designed to be set on the bedpiece Gr,whereby great elasticity and freedom of movement is given to the Wagon.

This gear may be made of any required strength without being too heavyor cumbersome, is durable and compact, and enables the Wagon body or boxto hang lower than do the devices for which this is substituted.

I am aware that fifth-wheels have been sus- 7o pended so as to rock bymeans of lugs and arms from the wagon-bed; but

What I claim is-- 1. The fifth-wheel of a wagon, suspended from the bedor body by horizontal rocking bars supported in a rotary king-bolt plateat the inner ends, and at the outer ends in segments traveling over thefifth-wheel, as shown and described.

2. In wagongear, the combination,with the king-bolt and fifth-wheel, ofthe plate 0, having on its upper surface the horizontally-perforatedlugs ff, the radial rock-bars E E, carrying bed-piece G, and journaledin said lugs, and the segments F F, having lugs g h, arranged as shownand described.

HORACE L. KINGSLEY.

Witnesses:

WM. '1. LEWIS, F. L. MITCHELL.

